Example Sentences

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Researchers believe the species' long, curved claws and its ability to strongly flex them would have made it an efficient grasper of vegetation.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2025

In two lines you have a portrait of Milligan as a self-aggrandizing grasper and Burger as the justifiably confident voice of authority.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2023

The da Vinci’s three arms were loaded and ready to go: one held a grasper, the second held a hook, and the third held forceps.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 23, 2019

Gilroy once again cast Russo, his wife, as a well-heeled, coreless grasper: Her gallery owner, Rhodora Haze, is an ex-punk who’s reinvented herself as a “purveyor of good taste.”

From Slate • Feb. 1, 2019

Attorneys need, before they start, Five years of training, but the grasper Who grudges one to vocal art Will end, as he began, a gasper.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, December 15, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir